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Accused Craigslist killer Philip Markoff’s alleged crimes and capture were so tied to the Internet that a “new kind of murder” has been born, writes Maureen Orth in Vanity Fair. Not only did Markoff allegedly find victim Julissa Brisman on Craigslist, but before the meeting that Boston police say led to her death, they communicated only by email. And investigators’ identification of a suspect worked the same way, with a little help from Microsoft.

Once the cops ID’d Markoff, their focus turned to Craigslist, whose Erotic Services posts appeared to have facilitated the murder. “Craigslist didn’t mean to start out creating a cyber-brothel, but that’s what it grew into,” one DC cop says. But though Craigslist has cooperated with the investigation and changed its policies, its CEO sees something of a ray of sunshine. If criminals use the service to commit a crime, he says, “it virtually guarantees they’ll be caught.”

Yeah and now we've just had two more psychos who had blogs fer crissake: the gymnasium lonely guy shooter guy and the religious nut kidnapper guy. No crazies have "tweeted" yet, though. Any day some guys going to tweet, "Well, I just shot up the mall and now I'm reloading..."

zackmasson

Aug 31, 2009 10:47 AM CDT

any your point? It's better than it use to be, at least they will catch these kind of people. If someone decides to kill there's no way to know and stop them. You can only catch them and make them pay for it. And Reader64481089 when you need them im sure you'll call 911 but in the mean time keep shitting on them why don't you. prick.